Alicia Vikander is Tomb Raider

Vikander won an Oscar earlier this year for her role in The Danish Girl.

Director Roar Uthaug will helm the project which sees a young Lara on her very first adventure as she battles to survive in a hostile environment.

Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley had also been in the frame to possibly play a younger version in what looks set to be an origin story for the computer game icon. Speaking at the Jameson Empire Awards in London, Ridley said: “There have been conversations [with the producers and bosses] but I’m waiting for someone to say ‘I want you, let’s do it.” However it looks like she has been beaten to the role.